Grahame Bond - The Great Pink Hunter - Review Tour

Humor

Date Published: Nov 16, 2017

'Babe'
meets 'Heart of Darkness.'
– Pig Breeders' News

Kevin Hunter, a crass Australian advertising
exec turned renowned tribal art collector, travels to the wilds of the mythical
island of Malaka with his personal biographer, to find the mysterious Gopi
people, a reclusive tribe of brilliant artists and retired pygmy headhunters.

To achieve cut through with the native tribes,
Kevin has taken to wearing bright pink safari suits, his first rule of advertising
being 'Have a point of fuckin' difference!'

Having had little contact with Westerners, the
Gopi elders are both impressed and envious of this wealthy, honey tongued
philistine and they give Hunter creative control over their tribal art and artists.
With unlimited power, Kevin Hunter, the frustrated creative, commercialises the
Gopi's traditional art to make it 'more accessible,' thus sending the artists
in a direction that threatens to destroy thousands of years of tribal culture.

Where Kevin Hunter is corrupted by power and
control, the Gopi are naively led into a school of popular art. To market his
'new wave primitive' brand, Kevin finally realizes his ambition and takes the
Gopi artists to New York City with disastrous consequences.

Grahame
Bond may be best known for creating the groundbreaking ABC comedy series Aunty
Jack, but he has also written books, stage shows, musicals, and won awards for
TV, as well as being named a member of the Order of Australia. In 1990, Grahame
also opened his own advertising agency, winning many blue chip clients before
selling up in 1996. In recent years Grahame has travelled to some remarkable
places as an adventurer, including trekking in Nepal, canoeing in Kakadu,
cycling from Hanoi to Saigon and digging up archaeological ruins in Jordan,
Cyprus and Syria. He has also recently shot a documentary in Papua New Guinea.
His extensive travel provided some of the inspiration for his first novel, The
Great Pink Hunter, due to be published in 2017.